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A Persian Gulf
Friday, April 8, 2011 by Allison Hoffman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Thirty years after being exiled by the Islamic Revolution, Iranian Jews have made their presence felt in Los Angeles. (With slideshow)
By Any Other Name
Friday, April 8, 2011 by Jonathan S. Tobin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Even by the State Department's cautious criteria, the propaganda campaign against Israel by BDS activists and their allies amounts to anti-Semitism, pure and simple.
Clash of Civilizations Clash of Civilizations
Friday, April 8, 2011 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

The death toll in Afghanistan has passed the two-dozen mark in the riots "inspired" by Pastor Terry Jones's burning of a Quran in Florida. The grisly political theater has served its purpose.
The Great Assembly
Friday, April 8, 2011 by Benjamin Elton | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A brief history of the London rabbinical court and its relationship with the chief rabbis of Great Britain.
Messianic Temptations Messianic Temptations
Thursday, April 7, 2011 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

The downfall of Moshe Katsav, the former president of Israel recently convicted and sentenced on a rape charge, is a many-sided episode—involving his crimes, the media circus around the judicial proceedings against him, and the private and public meanings of his disgrace.
Absolute Cowards
Thursday, April 7, 2011 by Benny Morris | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

As rioting Muslims murdered dozens of UN relief workers in Afghanistan, the (London) Times saw fit to repudiate criticisms of Islam voiced in its own pages by the redoubtable Ayaan Hirsi Ali.   
The House of Dreams
Thursday, April 7, 2011 by Najem Wali | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

When Iraqis remember their country's first minister of finance, a Jew named Sassoon Eskell (1860-1932), they still say, "God bless his memory."
You Say You Want a Revolution
Thursday, April 7, 2011 by Don Seeman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The fall of Middle East tyrants should be celebrated, but it is hard to be euphoric when so much of the future remains unclear and so much of the past is littered with wreckage.
Balkan Kabbalah
Thursday, April 7, 2011 by Jacob Silverman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A new novel by the Serbian Jewish writer David Albahari is a passionate exploration of Balkan Jewish identity from the Ottoman era to the present.
It Ain’t Necessarily So
Thursday, April 7, 2011 by Yair Hoffman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Textual disparities between the traditional Jewish Bible and the Samaritan Bible, which dates back to the Second Temple period, may reflect the process of editing.